OUR MISSION

July 20 – Alison Saar: She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships.

July 27 – Brook Newman:A writer whose fable for adults, The Little Tern sold over a million copies. Brooke's memoir, Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black and White, to be published this Spring, is set in the 1940's and 50's and recollects the unlikely relationship between her father, an aloof, white mathematical genius, and their maid, an illiterate, uneducated African American who had a knack with numbers.

Aug 3 – Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar: Poetry Reading - Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the 2005 Oregon Book Award. Joseph Millar is the author of Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press). His first collection, Overtime (2001) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Aug 10 – Dan Okrent: author of the forthcoming Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, to be published by Scribner in May. He began working on Last Call shortly before he concluded his term as the first Public Editor of the New York Times in 2005.

Aug 17 – Harriet Reisen: a former fellow in screenwriting at the American Film Institute, has written dramatic and historical documentary scripts for PBS and HBO, and has delivered commentaries
for Morning Edition and Marketplace.

Sept 10 – Maxine Kumin: Poetry Reading: Maxine Kumin sixteenth poetry collection, Still to Mow, appeared in 2007 in her 82nd year, following Jack and Other New Poems, The Long Marriage, and Selected Poems 19860-1990. She is also the author of Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry, and a memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery. Her awards include the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Harvard Arts and the Robert Frost Medals. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now titled Poet Laureate) in 1980-81. She and her husband live with their dogs and horses on a farm in New Hampshire, where for many years they bred and raised Arabians and competed in distance rides and drives.

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